Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. WELLSCrime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not stake their own.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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